Todd v. Haeger

The defendant is a keeper of a warehouse. The plaintiff in the year 1882, left certain articles of personal property with the defendant to be stored for him. The defendant sold the goods in 1885. The sale was made without notice to the plaintiff as required by chapter 336, Laws of 18^9, and therefore, it is legally a wrongful conversion of the property by the defendant, and a wrongful application of the proceeds to her own use. When the conversion is thus wrongful no demand is needed before action is brought. Tompkins v. Haile, 3 Wend., 406; Viner v. New York Steamship Company, 50 N. Y., 23;…